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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Busan
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| desultude wrote: |
Pretty painful looking. 
I feel sorry for pitbulls- they are victims of their instincts. Now that gene pool really shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. |
90% of the time its the owners that raise them not the dogs itself, I had an English Bull Terrier growing up, it was raised around me and my younger siblings including a young girl that would ride around her neck, she would never, ever try anything like that with anyone, she was a sweetheart that loved everyone.
It sure looks as though this is the criteria used to enforce Breed Specific Legislation. It still doesn't answer the question above though, does it? What really makes a dog, any dog, dangerous?
The answer is a scarey one, especially considering that the real criminal rarely gets punished. The owners of the dog are what make a dog dangerous.
Bad dogs are not born, there is no genetic mutation present in certain dog breeds that make them turn against their owner or reach out and bite their latest victim. Bad dogs are created, usually by the people who raise them, less often by unscrupulous breeders who deliberately or unknowingly breed unsound temperaments to another unstable temperament. Every dog is a product of his environment. Every puppy born is born innocent of future charges levied against him by the public.
http://dogs.about.com/cs/breedprofiles/a/mean_dogs.htm
The dogs are bred to be aggressive, not born, some breeds were used in history to be hunters etc, but they were also trained by their owners |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:18 am Post subject: |
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Here I am going to sound like an old lady, possibly my aunt, by stating "I can't understand why anyone would want to own a pitbull. They're ugly and dangerous. Anyone who owns a dog like that is overcompensating for something."
Sparkles*_* |
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Jensen
Joined: 30 Mar 2003
Location: hippie hell
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Freezer Burn wrote: |
| [....bred to be aggressive, not born... |
Maybe I'm missing some finer detail there? It's obvious that both genetics and training/experience play a role. Can't say I have a lot of patience with dogs...except maybe pugs, they're kinda cool... |
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sheba
Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Here there and everywhere!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| Genetics can make a dog a more efficient killer if it is trained to be a killer. However, genetics does not make it a dangerous dog by birth. Make sense??? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Freezer Burn wrote: |
Bad dogs are not born, there is no genetic mutation present in certain dog breeds that make them turn against their owner or reach out and bite their latest victim. Bad dogs are created, usually by the people who raise them, less often by unscrupulous breeders who deliberately or unknowingly breed unsound temperaments to another unstable temperament. Every dog is a product of his environment. Every puppy born is born innocent of future charges levied against him by the public.
http://dogs.about.com/cs/breedprofiles/a/mean_dogs.htm
The dogs are bred to be aggressive, not born, some breeds were used in history to be hunters etc, but they were also trained by their owners |
Well said mate!  |
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